The Washing Of The Spears
The Rise and Fall of the Zulu Nation Under Shaka and its Fall in the Zulu War of 1879
- Published: 6 July 2017
- ISBN: 9781446426081
- Imprint: Vintage Digital
- Format: EBook
- Pages: 672
Superb
Noel Mostert, New York Times
Mr. Morris is evidently incapable of being dull... Hemingway would have relished his vigorous way of bringing history to life
The Times
The book to end all books on the tragic confrontation between the assegai and the Gatling gun... Colourful yet commendably fair
Times Literary Supplement
This magnificent book is not only a history of the Zulus, the "Black Spartans", from their rise under Shaka to the deliberate destruction of the independent Zulu nation through the war forced on them by Sir Bartle Frere, but also a full-scale immensely knowledgeable account of British Colonial and military policy in relation to Southern Africa, and of the men who carried it out.
Punch
An accomplished volume, anatomising the achievement of Zulu nationhood and its destruction by the British at the high watermark of Victorian imperialism.
Observer